[mythtv-users] MythTV Light installation

Thu Oct 4 09:25:42 UTC 2018

On 10/03/2018 02:27 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
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> On 10/03/2018 01:49 PM, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) wrote:
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>>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 10:45 AM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
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>>>     3) Buy one of those mini keyboard remotes that can be used with
>>>     Android.  You'd have a full keyboard.  Most of them work with a
>>>     radio signal and you don't have to use line of sight like with
>>>     an IR remote.  Some tilt (they have some kind of gyroscope) and
>>>     they have really awkward mouse control.  Some of them have a
>>>     touchpad, like a laptop, and you can move the pointer with
>>>     that.  They're cheap, probably less than $25
>>>
>>> I bought this one: http://a.co/d/2lJGK6R and it's not available but 
>>> there are several others (This one is Amazon's Choice: 
>>> http://a.co/d/4SHvnFH and as you can see, it's less than $15).
>>>
>>> If you go this route, I'd look around for the one you want as you're 
>>> the one who is going to have to use it.  Some have touch pads and 
>>> some don't.  You can find these remotes all over the internet.
>>>
>>> It's just $15 bucks and you can use it in just about any USB 
>>> device.  It emulates a keyboard.  You can program a few IR commands 
>>> too like your TV Power.  Mine learns commands from another remote 
>>> control but only for a few buttons. It works pretty much out of the 
>>> box; there is almost no configuration needed.
>>>
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>> I too have one of the remotes you link to above with the ‘gyro mouse’ 
>> I rarely use that function with mythtv as all the other buttons on 
>> the arrow/media control side function fine for most mythtv 
>> functionality.  I did do an xmodmap to map some of the media control 
>> side buttons to mythtv functions. Here is the contents of my xmodmap 
>> that I used:
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>> The ! At the beginning of the line is a comment for xmodmap
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>> ! keycode 426 = P   # this is magnify +
>> ! keycode 427 = P   # this is magnify -
>> ! keycode 171 = <   # this is the >>| button
>> ! keycode 173 = <   # this is the |<< button
>> ! keycode 216 = >   # this is the >> button
>> ! keycode 176 = <   # this is the << button
>> ! keycode 225 = R   # this is the search button
>> keycode 166 = Escape
>> keycode 135 = M
>> keycode 179 = S
>> keycode 158 = E
>> keycode 163 = I
>> keycode 172 = P
>> keycode 216 = greater
>> keycode 176 = less
>> keycode 225 = R
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>> Regards,
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> You can also use your TV remote if your TV supports CEC The raspberry 
> pi has CEC support built in.
>
> Make sure you go follow the recommendations in 
> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#System_Performance for the 
> best performance.
>
> Peter
>

On the Wiki it says to use the 2017-11-29 version of Raspbian Stretch. 
But the link has no such version that I can find.
the index shows:
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[DIR] 	raspbian-2016-11-29/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2016-11-29/> 
2016-11-29 16:32 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-01-10/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-01-10/> 
2017-01-10 18:12 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-02-27/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-02-27/> 
2017-02-27 15:24 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-03-03/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-03-03/> 
2017-03-03 17:48 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-04-10/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-04-10/> 
2017-04-10 18:51 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-06-23/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-06-23/> 
2017-06-23 07:14 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-07-05/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-07-05/> 
2017-07-05 17:43 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-08-17/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-08-17/> 
2017-08-17 09:17 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-09-08/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-09-08/> 
2017-09-08 12:13 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2017-12-01/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-12-01/> 
2017-12-01 10:22 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2018-03-14/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-03-14/> 
2018-03-16 18:07 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2018-04-19/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-04-19/> 
2018-04-19 15:40 	- 	
[DIR] 	raspbian-2018-06-29/ 
<http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-06-29/> 
2018-06-29 03:28 	-

What is the current known working version for Mythfrontend??

Jim A

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